Re: 1.99gb window limit


Subject: Re: 1.99gb window limit
From: David R Bosso (dbosso@ltsc.ucsb.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 03 2000 - 12:30:47 EDT


--On Tuesday, October 3, 2000 12:04 PM +0100 Basil Hussain
<basil.hussain@specialreserve.net> wrote:

> In afpd.conf it indicates that the default config for file sharing is:
>
> - -transall -uamlist
> uams_guest.so,uams_clrtxt.so,uams_dhx.so -nosavepassword
>
> which seems a bit strange, as I believe that you have to set something
> special up on the Mac side to use DHX. Providing a default of:

DHX just requires MacOS 9, or 8.1-8.6 with Appleshare Client 3.8.5(?) or
later.

> - -transall -uamlist uams_guest.so,uams_randnum.so -nosavepassword
>
> would be better, so long as you have OpenSSL installed (the RPM's
> dependencies seem to take care of that anyway). 2-way encrypted passwords
> just work out of the box.

Not really out of the box, randnum requires plain text passwords on the
server. It's basically a server side vs. client side configuration issue.
I personally would rather not have plain text passwords on the server.

-David



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